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Ntrlckws Port 4^IWb*The following letter from Ref. E. H. Monnger U Ffcpf. JJ. 8. JJicfcetts, jfill be of inPo Dear BThunk jou for your kind letter, which I received yesterday, We arc nil about well; slowly recovering our strength.We were all quite sick. Eddie's case -was ecpooially bad. We thought hewould certain I v die. Through excite-iht ou his seenmeht ou his aftc inrtt ray own ease was serions for a while. ~ Mrs. Monnger had a severe attack and Ethel a pretty sharp one. But we are all ads red. Fortnnatefy Henry and Willie had been sent into the conutry.The first death was August 8th. • In. a few days there were other cones and then it was like the springing of b mine. Scon hundreds were down. I was taken Aug. 19tiiwnd for two weeks I knew but little of what wii going on.I suppose nearly twelve hundred people left town after the first cose, leaf-I ing five hundred and fifty persona in town; may be six hundred. At least four hundred were sick nt once. Nil race could not be found for a great many. Many had bad nursing. The distress on this nccUnt has been fearful. Some were withont otteudance; some died alone.There was a (lenr.au family near us named Thaler—father,mother and seven sons. Ail nine were down with fever ouce. Oue who was Attacked first was recovering; five died in one day—father, mother and three sons. All of them occupied two rooms; flvo were dying at once. Their groo.is and cries filling one another’s ears. It was terrible beyond description.I send you the death list ns follows, but thia does not tell all the ruin and suffering:WHITES.August Simouson, Miss Mary Wheeless, Win. Dority, A. J. Lowder, Dorsey Kilcrease, Clios. Weeks, Mrs. J. Ingraham, Mr. MoCaun, Mr. Little, Fritz Ungem. Mrs. Annie Simonsou, jL. Harris, H. S. Wheeless, Mr. Faust, R. H. vieCliutou, Tom Kelley, Jimmie Weeks, Geo. Lisoliar, Mrs. Strobridge, Chas. Shrove, sr., Mike O'Day, Andy Dempsey, Murrv Dority, Frank Lis-cher, Rudolph Thaler, Charles L Bar* rot, Tobias Thaler, Miss Jennie Mason, Adolph Thaler, John Ingraham's child, Mr. Thaler, Mrs. Thaler, Mrs. O'Con-uor's child, Rov. Geo. Hall, Mrs. Kavunangh, Mis. Birrot. Mrs. Faust, Mary Dority, Mrs. Shrove, Willie Day. Dr. Strobridgo, Paul H. Burnt, Chas. Shreve, jr., Mrs. Sabina Huber, forty four. Of whom, twenty-four were men, eleveu women, six boys, three girls. Forty three colored people have dfed.Miss Em Lowery is recovering, we hope, from a very severe attack.Nearly every body has been sick. Near five hundred cases and eighty-seveu deaths.Mrs. Huber is dying. Judge Tlinuher reported to be dying. Mrs Weeks has not a child living. Misses Floreuce aud Hattie Kenuard are over the fever.The fever is spreading iu the couutry; it is at neveu places that I kuow of. I have heard of nine deatlis in the country. You can imagine the consternation. • he dead lie unburied.I have beeu ap trying to do some thing for the lost nine days. Rov, J. G. Jones and wife had thb fever, but are well Yours Truly,E. H. Mounoek.
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Brookhaven Ledger
Brookhaven, Mississippi, US
Thu, Sep 19, 1878
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